What is the most stressful thing about living aboard?

[Nostrodamus]

Reading blogs on liveaboards often give the impression that life is care free and easy.

We have been aboard for 5 years and I often get stressed.

Our boat is our home so we try and look after her but also sail and visit as many places as possible.

There are things that stress me out from time to time such as weather, boat problems, ageing family or kids back home, anchoring when the wind really gets up or in very tight situations and the list goes on.

Maybe I should just sit back and say "what will be" but I cannot. Doing what I can to look after our home and our lives can be a stress or is it just me.

What, if anything do you find about sailing and living aboard stressful?

 

[blampied]

Time /date constraints.
Yes I know I'm retired, but:-
Travel home for medical appointments
Travel insurance (yearly policy but not away more than 2 months at a time)
Moving to or staying put so friends can visit
Where to Overwinter, being told I need to decide & book in advance.
I try to never book anything in advance, I like to change my mind without feeling guilty, so far Despite the warnings) i have resisted the temptation to book for winter, aiming to get to Cartagena before November and take pot luck.
Winter why can't it always be summer

 

[Carmel2]

I don't suffer from stress, I am a carrier, but today it's the internet connection.

 

[geem]

I don't suffer from stress, I am a carrier, but today it's the internet connection.

The only thing that stresses me is the idiot who anchors on top of you with no scope and a scale model of an anchor. The rest of sailing is a lot less stressful than working for a living. Cant wait to get back on my boat

 

[nickf]

Reading this forum!?

 

[duncan99210]

As Carmel says, I don't do stress. Just occasionally I'll loose the plot with some wretched idiot whose incompetence threatens my boat but otherwise, life's just too short......

 

[Tony Cross]

Stress? No, sorry, I've no idea what you're talking about.........

 

[lindsay]

There is a price for everything. What we are calling "stress" is simply the cost of a degree of freedom that we have sought and aquired, often with considerable mental, physical and financial effort, that cannot even be envisaged by normal mortals.

 

[Artic Warrior]

Running out of MARMITE !!!!

 

[duncan99210]

Running out of MARMITE !!!!

Hmmm, now that's likely to cause serious stress, along with supply shortages in the hot chocolate area.

 

[Artic Warrior]

Yep for sure as well

Hmmm, now that's likely to cause serious stress, along with supply shortages in the hot chocolate area.

 

[Carmel2]

It's a bit of a stress to wonder how am I going to get through 86 of these which arrived on Wednesday...........

I shall just have to push on...

 

[capnsensible]

It can get a bit tense sometimes trying to find a bar with football on. Or cricket.

Normally get a result, though.

 

[GrahamM376]

It can get a bit tense sometimes trying to find a bar with football on. Or cricket.

Normally get a result, though.

It can get a bit tense sometimes trying to find a bar without football.

 

[KellysEye]

Jane and I never got stressed but were always nervous when leaving on passage, it went a soon as we cast off.

 

[BurnitBlue]

To be accused of being a liveaboard.

 

[dslittle]

Leaving the boat for the next two months...

 

[Nostrodamus]

Guess it is just me who gets stressed then.
Am I the only one who worries when we leave the boat at anchor and go into an island for a few hours to explore?

 

[SamanthaTabs]

Guess it is just me who gets stressed then.
Am I the only one who worries when we leave the boat at anchor and go into an island for a few hours to explore?

Very probably..

 

[grumpygit]

Guess it is just me who gets stressed then.
Am I the only one who worries when we leave the boat at anchor and go into an island for a few hours to explore?

I would think that some degree of anxious is a more descriptive meaning, and quite a common affliction amongst us caring boat owners.
Stress is more akin to seeing skippers are jumping up and down on the deck screaming and shouting about nothing and no person taking a blind bit of notice.
May be fun for us all to do the stress test http://www.stress.org.uk/stresstest.aspx